(This is a lore page for Robania. For Robanian-themed builds, see Sofa's Builds.)
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Robania (Robanian: Robanya), officially the Republic of Robania (Robanian: Robany Repoliko) is a country in western Altirus.
History
The War Downslope
So Robania's got this big mountain range down the middle of it, right? n back when the Craenate empire was a thing, they controlled all the land around the mountains, but these tribes of hooligans controlled the mountains themselves. Anyway one day they decide they've had enough with the whole empire thing and Clan Roban leads a group of united tribes - the Robanskoy Host - down from the mountains to show the empire who's in charge. The empire continues to have a hard time with them for a really long time until the empire just sorta collapses and the tribes are free to expand.
The Kingdom of Robanska
The clans started calling themselves a kingdom after they came down from the mountains and then about two centuries later when the empire fell that kingdom really started taking off and they started colonizing the ocean and all that good stuff but then got in some wars with their neighbors and lost a lot of their coastline and their sea routes got choked so they had to give it up.
Republic of Robania and the Lords' Uprising
It's Altirus' version of the early 20th century. King of Robania sees the world is moving past monarchies and he decides not to be king anymore, naming himself Head Chancellor and establishing a parliament around him and stripping power from the nobility. The nobility is kinda cheesed off by this. So Duchess Yurinna Urczek rallies a bunch of angry lords and ladies to her side to make Robania a monarchy again. Except, not only did most of Robania's population kinda like this new republic gig and hate the nobility, but the Restorationist faction within the military was marginal. Therefore, Urczek and the Restorationists had to rely on foreign mercenaries and some support from the nations of eastern Altirus. The former kinda petered off then the nobles ran out of money, and the whole movement just kinda died when Urczek got herself killed in action.
The Chergarian Invasion
Turns out, there were some guys out east who were really rooting for the Restorationists. One of them was Chergaria, a big, scary empire who had recently started making friends with other big, scary empires in order to challenge the big, scary empires out west, neighboring Robania. Robania had sort of become a point of contention between the eastern and western nations - The westerners wanted to make Robania an ally to act as a buffer zone against the east in case they tried anything funny, and the east wanted Robania on their side so they could threaten the western states with invasion if they tried anything funny. And as previously established, Robanins don't like monarchies, and the east just tried to support a monarchist coup, so they decided they didn't like the east. So, to keep the western states from creating their buffer zone, the east invaded Robania. It was mainly just Chergaria though, since they had some troops out west at the time.
Naturally this invasion doesn't go over well for Robania. The Chergarian army is pretty slow, but Robania is fairly small and ill-equipped and leadership isn't that competent. Luckily, sperglord-general Endri Larmos steps forward and tells the government to chill - they can get the western countries on the horn, he would take care of the Chergarians. So he reorganizes the army to conduct a hybrid of guerilla warfare and blitzkrieg tactics, stalling them long enough for foreign support from the west to arrive (who were pretty easy to convince, cos they don't want eastern armies right on their doorstep). Chergaria gets smashed as soon as they pass over that mountain range and have to retreat, ultimately out of the country. Neat.
Military Rule
Before the Chergarians got pushed out, however, the government had to take a breather to rethink how it was handling things. Big decisions regarding strategy and war production took too long to go through parliament, so the Ministry of Defense - led by Minister Konstanta Syrgony - pushed a bill to have it so war-related decisions were directly controlled by them. The bill was passed by parliament out of desperation. Problem was, since they were at war, one could argue that all matters of the state were war-related. So, the hastily-drafted, vaguely-worded bill acted as a vehicle for the Ministry of Defense (and by extention, Syrgony) to seize control of the government. Parliament was still allowed to veto certain decisions if they voted on it, but part of that bill made it so the Ministry of Defense had final say in who could or could not be allowed a seat in parliament due to the threat of spies and Chergarian sympathizers. That also included the creation of the Office of Civil Interest, whose job it was to root out either of those in the country's government and general population, meaning those who may not have been fans of the bill sorta disappeared after it passed.
The Westenland Wars
Chergaria had been pushed out of Robania, and now they were fighting a combined force from the west. Momentum was against them, and they had to reconsolidate to prepare for any threats on the home front, so they sued for a ceasefire with the west. The west had better things to do as well, such as help rebuild Robania and reinforce the frontier, so they were cool with it as long as Chergaria pulled out of the region. This included Robania's neighbor, Hetland, who Robania didn't like all that much because they took a lot of the coast from them. So as soon as Chergaria left, Robania invaded. Hetland's military was nothing to write home about, but they did have Chergarian weapons, which were kind of a big deal. However, Robania had General Larmos, and General Larmos had a plan - Ignore flanks, use relatively fast and maneuverable Robanian tanks to penetrate Hetic lines and gun straight for their targets. Thanks to that strategy, and unprepared defenders, Robania managed to conquer and annex Hetland. They wanted to make the Hetish think they were still autonomous, though, so they set up a puppet government to pretend to run the place while Robania took all their resources in order to modernize their military.